Joe Denly, Paul Stirling and Chris Rogers helped Middlesex to a comfortable eight-wicket win at Voorburg.
On a day of contrived finishes, bore draws and calculated bonus point accumulation, there was a win for Yorkshire and tense happenings at New Road, Chester-le-Street and Grace Road as the sixth round of matches in the LV= County Championship reached an, at times, enthralling conclusion today.
Players made up for time lost due to the recent rain and put in some excellent performances on the third day of matches in the sixth round of the LV= County Championship today. Ollie Rayner, Kyle Coetzer, Tom Westley and Darren Stevens were just some of the people to impress.
Rain again played havoc with what should have been the second day of matches in the sixth round of the LV= County Championship. Hampshire, Derbyshire, Sussex and Lancashire are still yet to get their matches underway, while there was no play on day two at Durham, where the hosts are taking on Somerset, or at Grace Road, where Northamptonshire are taking on Leicestershire.
Only up at Chester-le-Street was anything like a full day's play possible as the opening day of matches in the sixth round of the LV= County Championship attempted to get underway amidst the rain today. Those in the far south and west were worst affected, with Hampshire's match against Derbyshire; Lancashire's at Sussex; and Gloucestershire's against Yorkshire all abandoned with no play possible.
We preview all eight matches ahead of the sixth round of the LV= County Championship.
The Clydesdale Bank 40 was hit severely by the weather today with all six of the matches affected to some degree. As usual, the rain proved to be a great leveller with Scotland and the Netherlands both recording upsets against their county opponents.
There were wins for Middlesex, Surrey, Netherlands, Lancashire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire and Kent on another day of county cricket action.
There were wins for Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire and Northamptonshire in the LV= County Championship today, while Middlesex's match against Worcestershire appears to be heading for a draw.
The rain allowed for some exciting action in the LV= County Championship as Warwickshire recorded a win over Durham to go top of Division One, while Kane Williamson and Andrew Hall put in notable performances in the second division.
The weather again intervened on the second day of matches in round five of the LV= County Championship, meaning that no play was possible in the matches involving Glamorgan and Essex; Northamptonshire and Hampshire; and Oxford MCCU and Kent, while the opening day of Middlesex's match against Worcestershire was also abandoned.
The rain finally relented to allow for more or less a full day's cricket as the fifth round of the LV= County Championship got underway. There were notable for performances from Derbyshire captain Wayne Madsen, Yorkshire wicket-keeper Jonny Bairstow, and South Africa and Essex batsman Alviro Petersen, among others on the opening day.
Rain was the ultimate victor as most matches in the third round of the LV= County Championship ended in a draw. However, there was time for Warwickshire to hold their nerve to wrap up victory over Lancashire and for Hampshire to win a thriller at Cardiff.
The batsmen made the most of the slightly improved weather to record seven centuries on the third day of matches in the LV= County Championship third round.
The weather delayed things rather less than was originally feared, meaning that significant play was possible in all eight of today's games in the LV= County Championship.
As expected, rain wreaked havoc with today's county fixtures. From the little play that was possible between the showers, it was the bowlers who once again held the upper hand over their batting colleagues.
We preview the third round of matches in the LV= County Championship which begin tomorrow, and round-up the rest of the county news in today's County Cricket Round-Up.
There were several close finishes in the latest round of LV= County Championship matches, with Middlesex, Warwickshire and Gloucestershire all triumphing in their respective matches.
It was a day for batting collapses in the LV= County Championship as Lancashire, Northamptonshire, Durham, Middlesex and Glamorgan all lost a flurry of wickets at one point or other during the day's play with most of the batsmen struggling to adapt to the overcast conditions.
The bowlers continued to hold the edge over the batsmen on the second day of matches in round two of the LV= County Championship, although Michael Yardy, Michael Lumb, Michael Powell and Chris Dent did all reach three figures to restore some pride for the batsmen.
Wickets tumbled on the opening day of matches in round two of the LV= County Championship as the overcast conditions and myriad of stoppages due to persistent showers made life a misery for batsmen.
We preview the second round of LV= County Championship matches which get underway tomorrow.
There were wins for Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Derbyshire and Surrey on the final day of matches in the opening round of the LV= County Championship. Meanwhile, up at Chester-le-Street, Durham MCCU collected a record of the unwanted variety against their county cousins.
We round up all of the action from the third day of the opening round of LV= County Championship matches, where there were wins for Leicestershire over Glamorgan and Essex over Gloucestershire.
